Recaps

Du Mu defeated Hulk with his strength, a Motion Sickness Patch, and repeated Battle Axe strikes, then beheaded Banner after Hulk reverted. He left without noticing Banner survived, and Banner called out to approaching Hulk Gang members who had apparently bet on his death.

• Du Mu dodged Hulk's charge and battered him, while Hulk's strength-absorbing gauntlets weakened Hulk's punches.
• Hulk briefly matched Du Mu in a contest of strength, but Du Mu pulled away and kicked him between the legs.
• Du Mu applied a Motion Sickness Patch, making Hulk vomit and lose his balance, then struck him with a Battle Axe while using Super Armor to resist his attempts to throw him off.
• Hulk reverted to Banner, who remained nauseated; Du Mu beheaded him when Banner could not escape or summon Hulk.
• Du Mu saw that the mission count remained at eight, then left with Dusk Wolf and Wade, believing Banner was dead.
• Banner's severed head revealed he had survived and called to approaching Hulk Gang members, who argued over a bet and one man's plan to use his skull as a piss pot.

Du Mu and his companions wiped out the Hulk Gang, and Dusk Wolf adopted a green-skinned baby before staying with his family. Du Mu then killed Doctor Lizard from the Quinjet and received new rewards, including an item that temporarily granted immunity to death.

• Du Mu, Wade, and Dusk Wolf ambushed the remaining Hulk Gang members and wiped out the gang after waiting to ensure no one had escaped.
• Dusk Wolf found Banner's green-skinned infant, adopted him as Bruce, and returned home to Donovan and their children.
• Du Mu left with Wade to hunt another Super Villain, while Dusk Wolf stayed behind to protect his family and learned Donovan was pregnant with their third child.
• Du Mu used a rocket launcher from the Quinjet to bombard Doctor Lizard's nest and killed Doctor Lizard with a sustained barrage.
• Du Mu completed the mission and received experience, Anchor Fragments, an Expired Spinach Can, a Fire Flower, and a machete.

Du Mu and Wade landed in a world overrun by superpowered zombies after their teleporter misfired, and they fought off waves of attackers while searching for a safer universe. Wade was suddenly struck by another beam from the teleporter and vanished, leaving Du Mu behind.

• Du Mu and Wade arrived in a ruined city, where Wade looted jewelry and Du Mu emptied a weapons shop.
• A wounded Mystique lured Wade close before revealing she was a zombie, and Du Mu shot her dead.
• Super zombies attacked, and Wade fought the first group before retreating behind Du Mu as more arrived.
• Du Mu killed the remaining zombies with his guns and combat skills, then urged Wade to find a safer world.
• When Wade activated the teleporter, a yellow beam struck him and made him disappear before Du Mu could leave.

Du Mu escaped a zombified Captain Marvel by completing the dungeon mission and returning to his castle, where he claimed new rewards and tested his Energy Tentacles. After Wanda mistook his tentacles for a monster, Du Mu raised his Spirit and decided to return to Kamar-Taj to look for new magic and The Ancient One.

• Du Mu faced zombified Captain Marvel, activated his Magnetic Shield, completed the mission, and escaped the dungeon before she could capture him.
• Du Mu received dungeon rewards that included Energy Tentacles and Lord of Sand, then tested the tentacles and found he could summon up to six powerful appendages.
• Wanda rushed into Du Mu's room after hearing strange noises, mistook his tentacles for a monster, and nearly attacked him before recognizing his voice.
• Du Mu offered to teach Wanda his new magic, but she declined and left to go fishing.
• Du Mu assigned all 15 free attribute points to Spirit and decided to return to Kamar-Taj to seek new magic and check whether The Ancient One had returned.

Du Mu met an Ancient One from a parallel universe, who tried to recruit him as the next Sorcerer Supreme and explained that he was needed to guard the reality dimension. The chapter ended with the system giving Du Mu a permanent quest to repel threats from other dimensions.

• Du Mu found a parallel-universe Ancient One in the meditation room and learned that the Ancient One from his world was away.
• The old Ancient One offered Du Mu the Sorcerer Supreme position and said Du Mu would reach his world in the future.
• Ancient One explained that Du Mu’s choices could alter the timeline and said he was the best candidate to guard the reality dimension until Strange’s car accident.
• Ancient One offered Du Mu Kamar-Taj’s resources, spells, and magical creatures as benefits of the position.
• The system issued Du Mu a permanent repeatable quest to expel or repel threats from other dimensions.

Du Mu received an offer to become the Sorcerer Supreme, then spent nearly half a month studying magic and handling dimensional incidents through Kamar-Taj. Back in Sokovia, Wanda reported the results of the country’s military enhancement program and began sharing news from Wakanda.

• Ancient One offered Du Mu the Sorcerer Supreme position, but a mysterious woman dragged him away after accusing him of trying to steal Du Mu; Ancient One later promised the same resources while refusing to give him the Time Stone.
• Du Mu studied at Kamar-Taj, but the Game System said his magical knowledge was insufficient to read the Book of Cagliostro; he learned several Black Magic spells and earned rewards by joining missions against dimensional creatures.
• Du Mu returned to Sokovia periodically and appointed Wanda as his personal secretary and bodyguard.
• Wanda reported that Sokovia had produced twenty-six Extremis Virus warriors, sixteen Super Soldiers, and one Interstellar Warrior; Du Mu had abandoned plans to enhance Bucky and create Adamantium soldiers after the experiments proved too dangerous.
• Wanda began telling Du Mu that Sokovian spies had sent news from Wakanda.

Du Mu captured Ulysses Klaue and Erik Killmonger to obtain the Vibranium Klaue had stolen from Wakanda. After learning Killmonger was Wakanda’s exiled prince, Du Mu offered to help him claim the throne, and Killmonger agreed to work with him.

• Du Mu ordered Hydra to reach Klaue before Wakanda’s agents and learned Klaue was hiding at an abandoned shipyard with Killmonger.
• Du Mu’s soldiers attacked the shipyard, captured Klaue, and defeated Killmonger, who discovered that his opponent was only an ordinary soldier.
• Du Mu inspected Klaue’s Vibranium and identified Killmonger as Erik N'Jadaka, an exiled Wakandan prince.
• Du Mu offered to help Killmonger ascend Wakanda’s throne, and Killmonger agreed after declaring he wanted to change the country.

Du Mu secured Killmonger's agreement to grant his group Vibranium mining rights if Killmonger became Wakanda's king, then had Pietro abduct King T'Chaka. Du Mu confronted T'Chaka about Wakanda's Vibranium reserves, but T'Chaka refused to surrender them and was left locked in a sealed room.

• Killmonger asked Du Mu whether he still planned to help him seize Wakanda's throne, and Du Mu demanded mining rights to Wakanda's Vibranium in return.
• Killmonger accepted Du Mu's terms, and Du Mu said they would begin their operation after a few more days.
• Du Mu dismissed Killmonger's offer to help force T'Chaka off the throne, calling him too weak to assist.
• Pietro abducted T'Chaka from an African airport and brought him to Du Mu, who introduced himself as Destroyer.
• Du Mu demanded Vibranium and revealed that he knew about Wakanda's mine, but T'Chaka denied the claim until Du Mu showed him a suitcase full of Vibranium.
• T'Chaka refused to hand over Vibranium, so Du Mu left him locked in the room, where T'Chaka hoped Wakanda would find him.

Du Mu kept T'Chaka captive while Wakanda prepared to replace its missing king through a Trial by Combat. T'Challa began the ceremony, and M'Baku unexpectedly stepped forward to challenge him.

• Du Mu visited T'Chaka each day to offer negotiations, but T'Chaka refused and remained confused by his captor's calm treatment.
• Wakanda's tribal elders urged T'Challa to take the throne while T'Chaka remained missing, and T'Challa agreed after Shuri supported the succession.
• The elders scheduled T'Challa's Trial by Combat for three days later, and Doom told Killmonger to challenge him, enhancing Killmonger's strength beforehand.
• T'Challa drank the potion that removed the Black Panther's power and began the Trial by Combat at the waterfall.
• M'Baku and the Jabari Tribe arrived, and M'Baku announced that he would challenge T'Challa.

T'Challa defeated M'Baku and was about to be declared Wakanda's new king when Killmonger arrived, proved his royal lineage, and challenged him. Killmonger gained the upper hand in their ritual fight while Du Mu watched and explained his opponent's supposed fighting style to Shuri.

• T'Challa defeated M'Baku with a joint lock, and M'Baku surrendered to protect his people.
• Killmonger arrived with Du Mu, revealed that he was N'Jobu's son, and proved his identity with his lip tattoo and royal ring.
• Killmonger presented Ulysses Klaue's corpse as proof that he and Du Mu had avenged Wakandans, and T'Challa welcomed Du Mu as an honored guest.
• Killmonger challenged T'Challa for the throne, and T'Challa accepted despite having just fought M'Baku.
• Killmonger overwhelmed T'Challa in the fight and escaped T'Challa's leg lock by lifting and slamming him to the ground.
• Du Mu told Shuri about Killmonger's supposed Leopard-Form Fist while they watched the fight, leaving Queen Ramonda dismayed.

Killmonger defeated T'Challa and became Wakanda's king, then traveled with Du Mu to consume the Heart-Shaped Herb. When Killmonger emerged from the ritual in a frenzy and struck at Du Mu, Du Mu knocked him into a wall, leaving T'Challa stunned by the strategist's strength.

• Killmonger overwhelmed T'Challa in the ritual challenge, and T'Challa surrendered after Killmonger warned that his mother and sister would be left alone if he died.
• The elder declared N'Jadaka Wakanda's new king, and Killmonger appointed Du Mu as his military adviser so Du Mu could enter the Heart-Shaped Herb's sacred site.
• On the way to Birnin Zana, T'Challa questioned Killmonger about his life while Du Mu spoke with Shuri and considered recruiting her for Hydra.
• Du Mu learned that only people with Wakandan royal blood could safely consume the Heart-Shaped Herb and considered researching its effects for Hydra.
• Killmonger drank the herb's juice and underwent the burial ritual, then sprang from the soil and punched at Du Mu.
• Du Mu struck Killmonger into the earthen wall, and T'Challa stared at the strategist in shock.

After Killmonger became Wakanda’s king, he formed an alliance with Sokovia at Du Mu’s command and welcomed a delegation whose fleet and soldiers stunned Wakanda’s leaders. The chapter ended with Killmonger approving a ninety-nine-point-nine-nine-square-kilometer plot for Sokovia’s embassy while insisting Wakanda would not yield an inch beyond it.

• Killmonger declared a permanent alliance between Wakanda and Sokovia, and T'Challa supported his reformist decree.
• Du Mu told Killmonger to prepare for Sokovia’s delegation and demanded a plot of more than a hundred square kilometers for an embassy.
• Sokovia’s cloaked Destroyer spacecraft appeared above Birnin Zana, and its advanced fleet and armored soldiers amazed the Wakandans.
• Du Mu and Killmonger exchanged formal greetings, then secured several cooperation agreements with Wakanda’s leaders.
• When a Border Tribe elder objected to the embassy’s size, Killmonger reduced the plot to ninety-nine point nine nine square kilometers and ordered that it come from the Border Tribe’s land.

Du Mu secured Wakandan land for Sokovia and sent Pietro to excavate it while Killmonger doubled Vibranium production. After sending Killmonger to America in disguise to test his views, Du Mu prepared to leave Earth on a space voyage, only to find Wanda had joined him.

• Killmonger overruled the Border Tribe elder and granted Sokovia long-term development rights to 99.9 square kilometers of Wakandan land.
• Du Mu gave Pietro a Diamond Pickaxe to excavate the designated area and arranged for Killmonger to increase Vibranium mining.
• Killmonger proposed arming a revolution in America, but Du Mu challenged him to live peacefully in a Black neighborhood while disguised as a white man.
• Du Mu appointed T'Challa acting king and sent Killmonger to America, where three armed men tried to rob him and reacted angrily when he used a familiar greeting.
• Du Mu returned to Sokovia and boarded a newly built Destroyer spacecraft with Bucky and other personnel for a test voyage beyond Earth.
• Wanda unexpectedly joined the voyage because she had heard they were going to a very big river, which Du Mu recognized as the Milky Way.

Du Mu and Wanda discovered Attilan, the Inhumans’ hidden city on the far side of the Moon, and entered after Wanda opened its protective shield. As Du Mu faced Black Bolt and the suspicious Maximus, Wanda’s Chaos Magic appeared to neutralize Black Bolt’s voice before he could speak.

• Du Mu took Wanda, Bucky, and a crew aboard the Destroyer ship to investigate the Moon’s far side, where they found a camouflaged city.
• Wanda used Chaos Magic to open a gap in Attilan’s protective shield, and Du Mu flew the ship into the Inhuman city.
• Black Bolt and Attilan’s leaders debated whether to respond to a destroyed Earth probe, while Maximus secretly hoped to exploit an invasion to seize power.
• An Inhuman messenger reported that a human warship had breached the shield, and Black Bolt’s group went to confront Du Mu and his companions.
• Maximus warned Du Mu that Black Bolt could kill them by speaking, but Wanda asked what mouth he meant as scarlet energy flashed around her.

Wanda sealed Black Bolt’s mouth, and Du Mu negotiated with the Inhumans for Attilan’s protective-barrier technology. Maximus then launched a coup against Black Bolt, revealing his ambitions to seize the throne and Medusa as Du Mu and Wanda watched the betrayal unfold.

• Wanda used Chaos Magic to seal Black Bolt’s mouth after learning his power could threaten them, and Black Bolt welcomed Du Mu’s group to Attilan.
• Du Mu described Hydra as a peacekeeping organization and joined Black Bolt’s group in the council hall to discuss keeping Attilan’s location secret.
• Du Mu offered to trade Hydra technology for Attilan’s protective-barrier technology, and Black Bolt showed interest in the exchange.
• Maximus signaled a group of Inhumans to attack Black Bolt and the others, then denounced Black Bolt for refusing to invade Earth.
• Medusa restrained two attackers and confronted Maximus, who admitted he wanted the throne and Medusa, while Du Mu and Wanda watched the confrontation.

Maximus’s coup against Black Bolt’s royal faction was crushed after Du Mu’s warriors joined the fight, but Maximus revealed that Attilan’s shield would fail without his palm-print authentication. Du Mu ordered Bucky to cut off both of Maximus’s hands, leaving the city’s fate unresolved.

• Maximus’s rebels overwhelmed Black Bolt’s forces, knocked Medusa unconscious, and revealed that Lockjaw had been drugged.
• When Maximus’s rebels attacked Du Mu’s group, the Interstellar Warrior and Bucky fought them off, while Du Mu unleashed six black tentacles to stop attackers near him.
• Black Bolt promised Du Mu shield technology and the Inhumans’ friendship in exchange for help, and Du Mu accepted a quest to suppress the rebellion.
• Bucky, the Interstellar Warrior, and Black Bolt’s people defeated the rebels and cornered Maximus.
• Maximus threatened to disable Attilan’s protective shield unless he was allowed to leave safely, and Du Mu ordered Bucky to cut off both of his palms.

Du Mu ended Maximus's coup, secured Terrigen Crystals and a site for Sokovia's lunar base, and helped launch construction while Lockjaw joined him. After Killmonger abandoned his challenge and violently cracked down on criminals, Nick Fury called Du Mu with news that Steve suspected Hydra spies inside S.H.I.E.L.D.

• Du Mu received the Devouring Pouch after helping stop the coup, and Black Bolt agreed to provide Terrigen Crystals, lunar land for Sokovia, and Attilan's shield technology.
• Du Mu returned to Sokovia, where Zemo sent engineers and Destroyer ships to build a lunar outpost with the Inhumans' help; Lockjaw began following Du Mu for grilled skewers.
• Du Mu read reports about Killmonger being repeatedly robbed and attacked, then persuaded him that the people he had hoped to help were not worth saving.
• Killmonger declared his challenge a failure, beat up Black criminals in a neighborhood crackdown, and returned to Wakanda as king.
• Nick Fury called Du Mu and said Steve suspected Hydra spies were inside S.H.I.E.L.D.

Du Mu learned that Steve had secretly begun investigating Nick Fury, whom he suspected of being Hydra, while Fury sought Du Mu’s advice on the same investigation. Steve then summoned Du Mu and revealed evidence implicating Fury in Project Insight, leaving Du Mu caught between both sides.

• Nick Fury told Du Mu that Steve suspected him of being Hydra after Pierce had used the French pirates’ confession to mislead Steve.
• Fury explained that Natasha, Coulson, Hawkeye, and May knew the truth and were secretly helping him monitor Hydra from within S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Steve called Du Mu and ordered him to meet secretly, warning him not to trust Nick Fury; Du Mu accepted the mission and went to Steve’s Brooklyn location.
• Du Mu met Steve, Natasha, and Sam Wilson, and Steve claimed Nick Fury was likely Hydra, citing suspicious spending, secret projects, and Pierce’s disappearance.
• Steve said his investigation had uncovered Project Insight, Arnim Zola’s account of Hydra’s conspiracy, and evidence that Nick Fury had initiated the project.

Du Mu encouraged Steve’s mistaken belief that Nick Fury led Hydra, then joined Steve’s expanding team while secretly working to delay its operation for Fury. After a week of recruiting, the supposed covert squad had grown to nearly twenty people crammed into Sam’s living room.

• Steve decided to form a secret team to stop the Hydra forces he believed Nick Fury controlled, and Du Mu accepted the mission while looking forward to watching them clash.
• Steve recruited Sam and assigned him to contact Tony Stark if the operation went wrong, then added him to the Kick the Black Egg League.
• Nick Fury learned of Steve’s suspicions, asked Du Mu for advice, and gave him a mission to stall Steve while Fury prepared a scapegoat.
• Du Mu and Natasha delayed Steve’s planned operation by recommending more recruits, including May and Skye, while Coulson suggested Fitz and Simmons.
• Over the following week, the team grew to nearly twenty members, leaving Steve questioning whether their operation could still be called secret.

Du Mu accompanied Steve on a covert mission to replace the Helicarriers’ positioning modules while secretly keeping Steve’s plan on track for Nick Fury. Steve encountered Sitwell and Rumlow’s strike team and tried to pass himself off as Hydra by saying their slogan, but they attacked him instead.

• Steve reorganized his oversized team, assigning most members to confront Nick Fury while he and Du Mu replaced the Helicarriers’ positioning modules.
• Steve and Du Mu entered S.H.I.E.L.D. Headquarters and took the private elevator down to the Helicarrier level after Skye pretended to hack the system.
• Steve went to work on one Helicarrier while Du Mu hid away to read, then told Steve he had run into trouble when Steve checked in.
• Steve spotted Sitwell and Rumlow’s strike team, tried to avoid exposing the operation, and claimed Nick Fury had sent him on a secret mission.
• Steve whispered “Hail Hydra” to Sitwell, but Sitwell ordered the strike team to seize him and called him a spy.
• Steve broke free and demanded to know why they were attacking him, and Sitwell answered, “Hail S.H.I.E.L.D.!”

Steve and Du Mu carried out their Helicarrier mission after Sitwell’s team mistook Steve for Hydra, and Du Mu covered for him when his shield revealed a Hydra emblem. Natasha then lured Steve into the strategic room, where Du Mu exposed her as an impostor Skrull named Leila.

• Steve mistook Sitwell and his assault team for Hydra, shouted “Hail Hydra,” and was beaten while refusing to fight back.
• The assault team’s blows scraped the paint off Steve’s shield, revealing Hydra’s emblem, and they concluded he was secretly Captain Hydra.
• Du Mu told Sitwell that Steve had been testing their loyalty, then warned the squad over the public channel not to leak Steve’s slogan.
• Steve and Du Mu replaced the targeting templates on the third Helicarrier, then went to the strategic room after Natasha reported an emergency purge protocol.
• Du Mu shot Natasha when she reached for an injector, and he revealed that she was a Skrull impostor called Leila.

Du Mu and Steve discovered that Natasha had been replaced by a Skrull, whose infiltrators trapped them inside S.H.I.E.L.D.'s sealed strategy room. Du Mu defeated the Skrulls and killed their leader, but the captured Natasha's fate remained unresolved.

• The female Skrull revealed that she had sealed the strategy room and ordered her disguised agents to attack Du Mu and Steve.
• Steve blocked the gunfire with his shield while Du Mu protected himself with magic and shot three Skrulls.
• Steve charged the impostors, and Du Mu fought off Skrulls using copied abilities, cutting down those transformed like the Asgardian Three Dogs.
• The female Skrull transformed with Abomination's strength and fought Du Mu, but he overpowered her with magic that weakened and slowed her.
• Du Mu battered the female Skrull with the Pharaoh's Scepter until she reverted to her natural form, then killed her.

Du Mu and Steve uncovered a Skrull plot to seize Earth and learned that about a million Skrulls had arrived, prompting Steve to launch a mission to stop the invasion. They gathered their team and Du Mu exposed May as an impostor, revealing that the Skrulls had infiltrated them.

• Du Mu defeated the Skrulls attacking him and Steve, then shot the Skrull disguised as Steve after admitting he could not tell which Steve was real.
• A Skrull confessed that Gravik led a plan to replace world leaders, take control of nuclear weapons, and make Earth the Skrulls’ homeland; about a million Skrulls had arrived, and they had collected genetic samples to copy superpowered people.
• The Skrull revealed that the real Natasha was imprisoned at a secret base, while Du Mu used hypnosis to ensure the prisoner told the truth.
• Steve accepted a mission to stop the Secret Invasion and decided to alert S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Avengers, while Du Mu offered magic as a way to identify infiltrators.
• Steve and Du Mu gathered their team in the strategy room, where Du Mu grabbed May and revealed that she was a male Skrull in disguise, shocking Grant Ward.

Steve and Du Mu exposed the Skrull infiltration of S.H.I.E.L.D. Headquarters, and Du Mu used Skye’s surveillance access and his ability to identify disguises to help Hydra agents capture the spies. They discovered that the Nick Fury seen on surveillance was also a Skrull, and Hill gave Du Mu a mission to rescue the humans the Skrulls had replaced.

• Steve warned S.H.I.E.L.D. personnel that Skrulls had infiltrated the organization and asked them to help stop the aliens.
• Du Mu identified Skrulls through the headquarters surveillance feeds, while Skye tracked their movements and Hydra agents captured them.
• Hill arrived at the control room, and Steve explained the Skrull threat without revealing Hydra’s presence in S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Du Mu used surveillance footage to identify the Nick Fury who had left headquarters as a Skrull, and Steve realized the impostor had used Nick Fury’s authority.
• Hill issued Du Mu a mission to rescue the humans the Skrulls had replaced, and Du Mu accepted.

Du Mu infiltrated a Skrull base disguised as Officer Leila and discovered that the Skrulls were extracting memories from captured humans. He prepared to rescue the prisoners after learning how deeply the Skrulls had infiltrated society.

• S.H.I.E.L.D. interrogated captured Skrulls and uncovered coordinates for three secret bases holding replaced humans.
• Steve assembled the Avengers, and the team split into three simultaneous rescue missions, with Du Mu taking one base alone.
• Du Mu disguised himself as Officer Leila, entered a remote factory, and convinced its Skrull guards and captain to take him inside.
• The Skrull captain showed Du Mu the factory’s production line, where Skrulls maintained a convincing human operation and paid their taxes.
• Du Mu reached a hidden chamber filled with captured humans and discovered Skrulls using energy beams and glowing hands to extract their memories.